Has there ever been a more dishonest Holyrood election campaign than the one John Swinney is currently running? I don’t believe there has been.

Break away from Britain’s integrated electricity market and you smash the model that has led to Scotland being a ‘leader’ in wind energy in the first place

Break away from Britain’s integrated electricity market and you smash the model that has led to Scotland being a ‘leader’ in wind energy in the first place

A look at Swinney or the SNP’s X or Instagram feeds appears to show a steady stream of misinformation in recent months. Of course, we anticipate that politicians will at times stretch the truth – or, at the very least, not be completely open with us. It would be naive to think otherwise. But the consistency and brazenness of SNP lies during this campaign takes misinformation in our politics to a new level.

The latest example came this week in the form of Swinney promoting his newly published column in the Daily Record. Referring to the high costs of energy, Swinney claimed on X that ‘Independence is how we can lower our bills…’. In the column itself he stated: ‘With full control of our energy resources, we can use that to bring down energy bills. That only comes with the fresh start of........

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